Oorah-thon: Live From Israel

computer and ladies and gentlemen Ura is truly a international organization and it's not just that the work we do here in the United States of America or in in Canada but we actually will uh one of the like we mentioned before Rabbi represent one of the Prime experiences and could be a very powerful cure of experience is going to learn in ER to Sur and we now have with us uh via webcam uh some of ura's uh students uh who are in ER and uh if you could just uh uh we have them here with us is um and goldberger who are in Isel they are actually uh they are actually there with us as well as uh some boys we have Josh o of Shalom Adam aiz Ken rubbe and Sean zuar who are there with us and a good guys and how you doing tonight how's everyone okay who am I speak who am I speaking with now who's there in the middle uh holding the phone AKA how are you AKA and I know that you how's it going over there it is it is excellent it is just awesome and that we know that you and your wife you open your home and you try to give uh uh uru boys and girls who are in AR Israel the feeling as if they have a sibling in Israel during the time that they spend there and uh tell us uh tell us a little bit of exactly what you do to make uh these boys experience in Israel all that much more powerful okay I just want to share one story that will hopefully bring it out a few years ago we had a girl that we got very close to and she used to come to us all the time for shabas uh we invited her for the perm suda when she came for the perm suda we had a few of my kusas were here and there must have been like 30 bam here and she being part of the family she was here helping out in the kitchen at the end of the year 3 four months later she tells my wife that the transformation of her decision to marry a guy who is learning Torah a Yeshiva guy happened during that Pera and we is her my wife is her how is that possible what exactly happened during that perms when everyone was drunk that transformed your life and she answered that she being in the family situation that she grew up she knows what it means for what men do when they get drunk and when she saw 30 Yeshiva guys dead drunk and all they were doing was fighting who should say the next V Tor and who should say the next Story of B or Riva and each guy their comments that's when she decided she wants to marry a Yeshiva Torah student that's amazing you're giving them the opportunity to kind of really see how yish lives and breathes and the difference between the kadus that yish brings in in these moments in these Kim uh as opposed to uh what maybe someone else would have experienced uh elsewhere at a different point during their life you have some boys with you here to tonight actually by you it's uh it's probably pretty early in the morning um yes we have three boys came we have Adam aid from Great Neck who's currently learning in the D program in and in the middle is Josh Shalom also learning in D and on the far right is Kenny rub who is learning in in The Old City overlooking the cotel also is ysep goer froma and ysep Stor from Boone hu so we actually um I guess what we're seeing here is that some of ur's counselors from ur's boy Zone actually go to ro to learn and then some of the campers as well will go in and that keeps keeps up even overseas and that's a wonderful thing to see um I guess we'd start with um we'd start with uh with Ken I guess uh Ken you uh can you you have a a long relationship uh with Rabbi mitz can you tell us about the relationship you have with r Min um I used to go to JFS and every every week in JFS we used to go to issue of sattin Island for to learn every week and then after I finished learning I used to um I used to go to re M's office just to talk to him and like he used to like ask us trivial questions on the week para and then he used to go with like prizes if we got anwers right and where are you where are you learning now in ER it's right by the C in the plaza that's right it's right right up on top so that's kind of really a prime real estate that you have uh and uh you can't get really any uh closer to the to the action um and and you continue this relationship with Rabbi Lim Rabbi minz has he been uh has he been helping you now as you're in Artis Ro has Ura been have you been in contact with people from Ura nowadays now that you're in AR learning yeah I visit AO every once in a while and I I see them a bunch of times through the air excellent excellent thank you so much for coming on tonight uh we have um uh we have Adam there as well um uh you had uh you had no uh previous connection I believe to her but now you're involved you were with us by some of the shabbatones that we made and uh and now you have a developed a connection to or tell us a little bit about that yes uh this is my first uh first encounter with or this year in the beginning of the year I met uh AKA who's who's in charge here inim uh I come here at least once a month usually more just to sometimes to say hello um I came here from Shabbat once I came on the shabbaton like you said and it's really um I can't even describe how much has changing my life this past year that I've been here I've been to a public school a public school my whole life and it's my first year in Yesa and thanks to ur it's it's really been it's really been something that's changed my life forever I'm really I've really gained the Torah and Yeshiva experience more than than I ever could have imagine and what Yeshiva are you in now in y I'm in or in or okay that's wonderful that's wonderful that's absolutely wonderful and who's uh sitting there in between you guys um J that's Josh huh Josh shalom uh you also uh I I understand that you have quite the Shas with all the boy Zone staff members I think that the from what I understand there's really been a a deep relationship that's developed over there yeah like I always see them around we always say hi like I I encounter them going on air Shas going through Gula or N I just see them and I we just start talking we we go walking into like uh manise and we we go look for Farm together it's just it's it's great they refer like specifics farm that might help me to like in my situation I I speak with them like they they care that's uh one of the best parts and from what I understand this a new thing that Ur now we don't just have shabbaton uh here in in in uh in America in the US in uh New Jersey and uh uh for the boys on and girls on campus separate shabbaton but also now we have shabbaton in Israel as well so this really Ur is kind of branching out and the kirv aspect um is uh is is global as well as the fact that I think it's important that we see how comprehensive uh ura's uh organization is we don't just drop people off somewhere and have them figure uh figure figure them out about theirselves so new shabat ton man I just would to ask you to pass the uh the cell phone there to your staff members uh who are sitting on the side of you there uh who do we have with us there uh we have uh you are goldberger and next to you is uh who's next to you there we got the storie is uh is is there as well so you guys uh have uh tell us about your and what you do for Ur I'm friends with a lot of boys and we learn and I sometimes with some guys that's wonderful and and SOI I know that you've been involved with for for for many many many years and uh and and and what now that you're in so will you learn sent and you still have you're still involved with uh you're still involved with Ur even over there I know you were very involved here before you went toell I'm so involved over here doesn't stop any wherever you are in the world are you do st's son yeah oh so I went to the same class with your father in Yeshiva of Staten Island uh that's it that's in 1970 it's an honor to see that his son is IS F in his wonderful work or good morning to you guys a happy Sunday and thank you so much for being on with us tonight I just want to ask AKA one thing uh AKA what time was it over there in in ER 8:35 all right you know you're speaking here to hundreds of thousands of listeners across the uru radio th we want to ask you from the to give AA to all of our listeners the biggest the of giving amen we should all to give thank you for joining us thank you very much and a good to everybody